Admission office

Address:

Visitor address:

Title/position of the person responsible for administration of admission process:

Gurmit Chilana, MD - Director of Admissions & Clinical Affairs

Admission requirements

The school applies elements of both national and local requirements

Students are admitted in equal or nearly equal numbers after completion of an undergraduate degree and after completion of secondary school education

The school does not use the results of a national entrance examination. It does not use its own entrance examination.

An interview is required as part of the admission process

The school:

admits both female and male students

admits foreign/overseas students and national students.

does not admit students with other graduate degrees into a shorter or otherwise different progamme

does not have an affirmative action programme to support the admission of underrepresented groups, or any other form of programme to support the admission of minority groups

offers a pre-medical course

Other qualifications than the standard admission requirements accepted:

none

Tuition fees: All students pay tuition fee

Foreign/overseas students are eligible to practise in the country after qualification.

Medical programme

Title(s) of the qualification awarded on graduation

In English: Doctor of MedicineCommon abbreviation: MD

Structure

Number of years of study required in order to graduate from the programme in basic medical education: 4 years

Actual average number of years of study for students to complete the programme: 4 years

Percentage of admitted students expected to complete the programme: 81 - 90 per cent

The programme in basic medical education last revised: 2008

The programme is:

divided into two parts - an early pre-clinical phase with no or limited clinical experience, and a following clinical phase

partly integrated (1 - 24 per cent integrated)

both a community-based and a family medicine programme (50 - 74 per cent of curriculum)

lecture-based, problem-based, case-based and based on other student-activating learning/teaching methods (50 - 74 per cent of curriculum used for student-activating learning and teaching methods)

Clinical training requirements

- including both theoretical instruction and practical experience

Number of years of the programme which include clinical training: 2Number of weeks of clinical training in the programme: 72Clinical training is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme

Number of years of the programme which include time with real patients: 2Number of weeks of the programme which include time with real patients: 72Time with patients is 50 - 74 per cent of the full programme

Students must satisfy the following requirements for clinical training to be licensed to practise as a medical doctor:

national requirements concerning clinical training

the requirements of the medical school's programme in basic medical education

requirements for completion of a supervised period of clinical practice after graduation such as internship or pre-registration training

Total number of final student assessments/examinations in each year of the programme:

Number of assessments year 1:

9

Number of assessments year 2:

9

Number of assessments year 3:

6

Number of assessments year 4:

6

Delivery of the programme in other countries

Arrangements to deliver part of the programme by an institution or institutions in other countries

mandatory for a substantial component of the programme

The medical school offers its programme in any other country

no, the programme is not offered in any other country

Timing and the academic year

Academic year, average number of weeks: 45

Instruction in year 1 of the programme starts in: Not specifiedInstruction in the following years starts in a different month

Total number of scheduled hours of instruction (contact hours) for a student in each year of the programme:

Number of hours year 1:

1650

Number of hours year 2:

1105

Number of hours year 3:

2880

Number of hours year 4:

1800

Numbers of staff and students

Teaching staff

Total number of academic staff employed by the medical school and involved in the teaching process:

Number of full-time staff:

11

Number of part-time staff:

5

(Figures does not include the hospital and community based clinicians who contribute to the medical programme by supervision of clinical training.)

Other academic staff employed by the health-care system are involved in the teaching process.

Students

Number of full-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:

2004

2007

Men

12

18

Women

1

11

Total

13

29

Foreign/overseas students

13

27

Number of part-time students admitted to the first year of the medical programme:

None specified

Total number of students in all years of the medical programme (medical student population):

None specified

Number of graduates from the medical programme:

2007

Men

1

Women

0

Total

1

Foreign/overseas students

1

Teaching facilities and student services

Teaching facilities available for the medical programme:

group rooms, typically 5 - 12 places

classrooms, typically 20 - 40 places

small auditoriums, up to 100 places

dissection rooms

anatomical collections/museums

teaching laboratories

clinical skills laboratories

Access to hospitals or other clinical facilities for clinical training:

agreement with a hospital/hospitals

Computer system or network

Available

100 per cent (all) of staff have access to the internet for academic use100 per cent (all) of students have access to the internet for academic use50 - 74 per cent of total student population can access computers concurrently

Library services

Available

Student support and participation

Medical school/university student services and support:

academic counselling

personal, economic and social counselling

health services

student housing

sports facilities

other services or support

Any student organisation at the medical school:

Yes

Student participate in:

council of the medical school or faculty

a curriculum committee

carrying out course evaluations

carrying out programme evaluations

other committees, etc.

Recognition, accreditation and quality assurance

The medical school and its programme in medical education are not subject to accreditation or a similar process of official recognition.

External evaluation, other than as part of an accreditation process, by:

an international organisation

Major changes in the curriculum must be approved by:

the university

other authority

Internal quality improvement and quality assurance mechanisms applied within the medical school